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Also - loneliness needs to be studied for its lethality

No, you just spent 5 minutes sobbing in a parking lot because there’s a hole in your sock and it’s only Tuesday and things are tough and it’s only Tuesday

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

Perhaps now people will stop wishcasting about the US military refusing illegal orders. That's not a thing that happens. The 100% compliance rate with using civilian boats for target practice was a bit of a tell.

Not dead.

Live, laugh, behead a billionaire

Love this.

Been awake about 30 minutes and I might have already reached my limit on social media today…

Being that the birthing process is over (you're done being born), the shift in tense is the only way to express it.

Good job.

So ... you'll be writing them a sternly worded note and then do some hand wringing before you give up and go to lunch?

Your gerontocracy is part of the problem.

So ... you'll be writing them a sternly worded note and then do some hand wringing before you give up and go to lunch?

Your gerontocracy is part of the problem.

I think we should bring back the Age of Sail.

Vaccine Information Statements (VISs) Overview | Immunize.org| Immunize.org Find materials on legal requirements to give VISs to patients before vaccinating.

Vaccines and immunization fact sheets you can't find on CDC website anymore are archived at the link below. May be helpful to bookmark this for future reference.
www.immunize.org/vaccines/vis...

A Black professor accidentally started an HBCU on TikTok called HillmanTok. Now other professors have joined in and are teaching actual courses with some offering certs that can be added to your resume

Some courses being offered ⬇️

For no particular reason, here’s a list of pro bono immigration lawyers in various areas in the United States.

www.justice.gov/eoir/file/pr...

News alert: Good Morning America Troops arrive at the Southern border, battle for the Super Bowl and panda-monium at the National Zoo. Watch GMA on ABC.

This is probably what’s going to drive me insane in the weeks and months ahead.

Trump’s fascism is going to be presented alongside sports news and wordplay about new animals at the zoo, like all of this is normal.

Love yourself like RPG designers love Capitalized Words.

Crypto is just Mary Kay for boys

I think it's really beautiful that a piece of transfeminist writing firmly committed to epistemic JUSTICE for ALL transfeminine people is so popular in our community and that this popularity has propelled it to a level of visibility in a cis space that would normally be denied through epistemicide

LI’s last duck farm forced to shutter and euthanize nearly 100K birds due to outbreak of contagious bird flu It's a fowl day on the East End.

99,000 ducks to be culled in NY. It will take the farm at least a year or two to re-open, if they can. The owner said, “It was like Covid for ducks. Everything ended."

Other reporting from USA Today notes avian flu has infected > 138M poultry in all 50 states since 2022.

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again tapping the sign: please support Wikipedia and other quality information sources - especially local news, double especially newsrooms that are worker owned and reader funded

There is an AI company called GeoSpy, the AI is designed to look at a photo (any photo) and tell the user where that photo was taken. They initially opened it to the public, but privacy concerns led to them going private. And now they sell to the folllowing: law enforcement, government and insurance. I know we’ve been saying “don’t fucking take pics at protests” for years? But I think we need to escalate that to “don’t take pics at pride. Don’t take pics at queer events” etc

IMPORTANT!! 🚨

Surveillance state update —

From a friend with informed intel. No more crowd photos of any kind, friends. I’m sorry.

First and foremost, my job is to understand what the writer is wanting and trying to do.

Only then can I start applying the rules and structures of language to help them get there, using whatever they've got on the page as a base.

My job is to clarify and strengthen broadcast, always.

Heads up for the Weather Community!

You can now find NOAA (@noaa.gov), NOAA Climate (@climate.noaa.gov) & NWS HQ (@nws.noaa.gov; still being set up) on Bluesky!

I really value those kind words today. Thank you so much.